conradludgate

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by conradludgate 4d ago
Yes, these are the only two options. That is definitely true. It's of course impossible to have any nuance or middle ground here where you use LLMs to assist while you still focus on the engineering design decisions and the quality.
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by conradludgate 4d ago
Likewise, I've found many bugs using LLMs in the small software libraries I hand wrote and considered complete and correct - even though it was my sole focus at the time and I thought I had perfected it
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by conradludgate 4d ago
she*
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by conradludgate 4d ago
For personal use, Luna-xhigh on the Plus subscription. I only ever hit my limits if I decide to use Sol or Astra for a bit more quality. For work, given we pay API pricing anyway, I've been happy experimenting with K3-medium as my defa
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by conradludgate 8d ago
The slop is what upsets me the most right now. Some people feel the need to attach an image to almost everything the post - even in chat rooms (including slack at work). These images serve no purpose, but the poster feels it is useful - tho
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by conradludgate 8d ago
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by conradludgate 9d ago
Nowadays it's the anonymous accounts that are generally most likely real, and the "real name" accounts with a human profile picture are most likely mass generated. You just use a name generator and pull profile pictures from
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by conradludgate 9d ago
I think a key difference is that most programming careers, the artistic outlet (code) is not what is being sold to customers. The customer might feel something if the app works fast, but they won't feel anything about the fun bit packi
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by conradludgate 15d ago
I think about removing please/thanks, but then I accidentally add them back in during some edit/rewrite of the prompt... It's just how I'm used to asking for things
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by conradludgate 16d ago
Hopefully it crashes if corrupt... But it could instead jump straight to some code designed to clean up files and delete your database
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by conradludgate 19d ago
No. atproto (which is what bluesky is based on) supports all kinds of public media - for instance https://standard.site/ which is designed for longer form static content. You can choose where your PDS runs and the ecosystem
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by conradludgate 20d ago
In our London apartment leasehold, we have a water-sourced air conditioning unit. No external condenser required, it instead dumps the heat into the waste water. It has been incredibly helpful during this heat wave as someone who really str
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by conradludgate 21d ago
How much did you spend on hardware and electricity to run your free models
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by conradludgate 24d ago
I'm not someone who typically reads books, so I have some perspective. Although I'm not the type of person who would fool myself into actually exploring the medium of writing. Everyone likes stories in some form. Everything has a
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by conradludgate 27d ago
As someone using bazel at work, the find script was much more amenable to me trying to audit our usage - we don't use cargo, so no cargo cache or cargo audit, but I can still figure out whether a particular package was downloaded.
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by conradludgate 28d ago
I'm in my late twenties, grew up in the south west. This is my first time hearing about this term
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by conradludgate 29d ago
What I've observed is that by prompting for longer I get to keep my brain focused on the architectural ideas (networking, protocols, data structures, etc) rather than worrying about the most performant/elegant implementations. I a
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by conradludgate 29d ago
Spindles (CI) can use configurable engines, which includes nixery or microvm (which is similar to github actions). You're not forced into nixos I don't understand how it forces you to engage with Rust. It happens to be written in
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
pgbouncer runs as a single threaded service, so it ends up getting bottlenecked by some heavy clients on typical server CPUs with low clock speeds. Sharding/peering pgbouncer works, but it's not perfect. More significantly for us
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
I think it's a matter of perspective. It's Russia's war. The Russian people didn't want this, but they have to live with their leader's decisions. For the Ukrainians, the alternative is surrendering to Putin.
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
I imagine they want the people of Russia to feel the economic pain of the war, and vote/protest accordingly.
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
(I work on the postgres proxy layer at Neon) PgBouncer is entirely optional and it's not always the right choice. If you have a classical app (non serverless) and you can maintain a connection pool from your app, then I recommend avoid
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
While I agree that CPU limits tend to make your performance worse, I don't think the delivery of the post is all too convincing (and is pretty heavy on the LLM-isms that it's putting me off from reading). It mentions that a cpu re
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289260
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
In my experience, it's the act of writing for someone else that makes me learn the most. It helps clear out the assumptions I had which I had been satisfied with but didn't actually have the evidence for. When writing for myself,
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
See also https://orlp.net/blog/taming-float-sums/
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
Maybe you could benefit from Hooks?
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
How does this work with a monorepo with hundreds of teams around the globe? If you break the trunk, that means no other teams can release
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
The design is postgres. It's our customers that do stateful things on those connections. Unfortunately it's tools like pgdump/pgrestore that are not tolerant to connection interruption. Node failure is indeed a problem. Not m
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by conradludgate 1mo ago
In my experience, it's a monorepo problem. We have a monorepo at work and the CI only runs a minority of tests prior to merging, and then reverts bad commits later. It can take a few hours until every test has run including your commit

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